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Arienne Casebier's mother lost her battle to Stage 4 Breast cancer with an inoperable tumor this morning, August 16. Miss Susan, Arienne's mom, passed at in hospice care at home with Arienne, her only caregiver.
Taking care of her mother and spending precious moments with her was a full-time responsibility. Arienne was unable to take on business for her catering company for the past several months and the rent is due! (We aren't kidding… it's actually past due.) Please help us raise money for this wonderful family to pay the rent and cover the funeral costs and expenses that are forthcoming after cancer takes our loved one. This is a difficult time for Arienne and all help would be appreciated.
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After being diagnosed with a recurrence of Lyphoma and scheduled for a stem cell transplant, last summer, Kyle decided to run a 5K as a fundraiser after his first round of chemotherapy in August. Why? One...because he's a rockstar and Two....because our family began our own non-profit, #Road2Recovery, to assist those with financial difficulties during treatment so that they could pay their household and/or medical bills when they were unable to work.
SO....He has decided to do his his first 5K AFTER his stem cell transplant a year later! Please join his team and fundraising or offer him your support by donating to this great cause!
This will be the 5th family we have been able to assist in the past year due to YOUR generosity!
It is our intent as a family to help those in our local community by giving back the same support that we have received as a family through financial gifts, encouragement and prayers. If you are financially blessed and feel led, please consider SPONSORING us! We understand that this may not be a good time or that you have your own causes to support, so we would also appreciate your prayers as we train, prepare and participate in these races through the month of August.
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Question about Belkin (F5D7050) 802.11a/g/b Wireless Adapter
I recently bought a new laptop, HP - Compaq 8510p. This laptop has the wireless connection built in, WLAN and Bluetooth. I have configures my Belking wireless router as a WEP 64 bit security interface. The laptop has no problem seeing the router through the SSID I configured. I configured the Wireless network connection on my laptop to the WEP code and at times I get a connection. However, my laptop does not indicate so "Limited connection or no connectivity" but I am able to access the internet. However, this is short lived as it loses the connection eventhough my signal strength is excellent. One more bit of info is that I can connect to the LAN cable on the same internet provider and get a good, constant connection. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is there something that I should be configuring on my laptop for the wireless connection ?
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Disabled the WEP security and connection worked fine. Need to still investigate WEP or WAP security issue with router.
It is possible that you need to further fine tune your WEP configuration. To verify if it's the security lock, try running the laptop and the router without the WEP security (disabled) and determine if you still get the "Limited connection or no connectivity".
If yes, you have just eliminated that area and could consider other possibilities, otherwise you then have to concentrate on the WEP security.
Hope this be of initial help/idea. Pls post back on any developments (or lack thereof) or should you need additional information.
Good luck and kind regards.
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Hi again,
Another thing you can try is to set the laptop to use static IP address and network configurations.
Hi again,
Glad that you can now connect and have confirmed that it is the WEP security that causes the "Limited connection or no connectivity".
It is a known compromise that when security is enabled, the speed suffers.
If your purpose in using the WEP is to prevent others from connecting, may I suggest MAC filter instead (if your router has this feature). You forego the WEP but still maintain some security.
Another thing that has been found effective is to use Static IP Address assigned to your Belkin F5D7050 WiFi connection and not the DHCP handed out address. This would mean moving from "Obtain an IP Address automatically" to "Use the following IP Address" in the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties of the WiFi Networking Properties. The configuration must be appropriate to the routers.
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8th and 9th JUNE 2019
The game never stops…………………so here we go again!
COUNTING DOWN TO now 2019 ...further details will follow in December 2018.
Women – Over 35's / Over 50's
Men – Over 40's / Over 50's / Over 60's
More tournament details will be posted when we know.
Chairman's Note 2018
Welcome to GB Masters basketball in Manchester which will be our 23rd year of running this tournament. We have grown from a 4 team men's event to over 60 teams from all over the globe competing, introducing the women's competition in 2007.
We welcome returning teams that have come back year after year as well as new teams. We hope you will enjoy the weekend full of basketball as well as catching up with old friends and making new ones.
This will be my second tournament as Chairman having been involved on the Committee for the past 11 years as Membership and Officials Co-Ordinator. I am supported by Martin Shaw, Treasurer, Graham Murray, Fixtures Co-ordinator, Grace Jacca who will liaise with the Polly Camp officials, Maria Endacott-Heser as our Secretary and Jacque Talbot who will oversee our social media, website and comms over the weekend and Matt Ellmore who is our Manchester Liaison Co-ordinator.
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After being excluded from the upcoming New Hampshire debate, Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is upping the ante in her outspoken campaign to make the stage with a new message to the Republican National Committee.
Fiorina will be on Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon tomorrow to discuss the latest developments.
Below is her official letter to the RNC.
February 3, 2016
Republican National Committee
310 First Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003
To the Chairman and Members of the Republican National Committee,
Our debate process is broken. Networks are making up these debate rules as they go along — not to be able to fit candidates on the stage — but arbitrarily to decide which candidates make for the best TV in their opinion. Now it is time for the RNC to act in the best interest of the Party that it represents.
In 2012, the debate stage featured 8 candidates until the Iowa Caucus and then all declared candidates still in the race were invited from that point forward, including the ABC New Hampshire debate. As of today, I will be the only candidate kept off the debate stage. To review, we beat Governors Christie and Kasich in Iowa this week when voters actually had their say. This campaign has the same number of delegates as Governors Bush and Kasich while Governor Christie has zero. We're ahead of Dr. Carson in New Hampshire polling. We are 6th in hard dollars raised and have twice the cash on hand as either Governors Christie or Kasich. We are already on the ballot in 32 states, and there is a ground game with paid staff in 12 states. Yet, all of these candidates will be invited to the ABC debate. I will not.
There are only 8 candidates left. It's time for the RNC to demand that media executives step aside and let voters hear from all of us.
I trust you will act appropriately.
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NAMES: Finn O'Branagáin + Scott Sandwich // ROLES: Writers + Performers
// SHOW: The Epic
What made you first realise you wanted to pursue a career in theatre?
SCOTT: I don't want to pander to my crowd here (you've been a great audience. It's great to be back in Perth!) but over a decade ago I saw This Blasted Earth: A Christmas Miracle which probably broke my face, artistically speaking. That definitely got me into theatre; imagine 19 year old me discovering the stage could be a place for weird, hilarious, mind-f**ks? Anyway, it turns out Tim Minchin was in that. He has a lot to answer for.
FINN: I always just kind of knew that I'd either write books or make plays, and then I saw this play in Year 12, which was 100 by Christopher Heimann, Diene Petterle and Neil Monaghan for The Imaginary Body. It still is the best play I've ever seen. It was simple and masterful transformation and physical theatre, that while unravelling a narrative, encouraged the audience to question their own lives and choices. It was incredible – and I knew I wanted to give other people those kind of experiences. I wanted to make magic too.
I recently found out that they also wrote it while living in three different cities, which seems to be something I do in lots of my projects.
Do you have any unusual rehearsal rituals?
FINN: They're not quite rituals, but Scott refuses to do vocal warm ups, and I get sick every time we have a show coming up.
SCOTT: Yeah, I wouldn't say it's the best process, and don't recommend it, but it works for us.
What song best describes you/your style and why?
FINN: Dig for Fire by Pixies. Because I feel like the lyrics explain my whole life.
SCOTT: Queen's You're My Best Friend, Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, Wings' Live & Let Die, obviously… wait, what was the question? Karaoke favourites? Yeah. Anything by Fleetwood Mac.
What type of animal would you be and why?
SCOTT: I'm terrified of Great White Sharks but I LOVE Great White Sharks. And I think Killer Whales are the Jerks of the Sea. Not that I believe in it, but if I had a spirit animal, based on what I've just said, I guess I'd be some kind of seal?… I also have a strange affinity with the platypus. No reason.
FINN: A christmas beetle because they're brightly coloured but still a bit scratchy with their little-claw feet and they think they're so tough but really they're just tiny bits of rainbow trapped in a bug.
Who would play you in a movie? Why them?
SCOTT: Marion Cotillard.
FINN: Oooh she's good. Can I choose her too?
SCOTT: Not if we're in the same movie.
FINN: Ok, we'll fight for her. The loser can have our back up, Carrie Brownstein, which is still really good.
SCOTT: Oh man, no, I've changed my answer: Carrie Brownstein. And Abbi Jacobson. They'd all be better at playing me than I would be.
Do you have any irrational hates or fears?
FINN: We are united against wasps and their arse-daggers. Plus, they have better facial recognition than I do, so if you annoy a wasp, you've potentially got an enemy for life. An enemy with an arse-dagger.
SCOTT: I hate pumpkin. So much so that I was only able to have sweet potato for the first time last year. A month ago I was forced to have half a spoonful of pumpkin soup (pumpkin's most dangerous form) during a house inspection. I did not die, but I did not enjoy it… Suffice it to say, I did not get the house.
FINN: I always forget this and I always offer him pumpkin-related goods.
SCOTT: It's not funny.
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But hopefully the more astute of you, or those who know a little about me, will be thinking, 'Hang on a minute, I sense a trap, he's up to something here, what's he getting at??'
Well, let me explain, I love watching people, listening to them; in the street, on TV, at the checkout in Morrison's, or where ever. And people say things; about the situation, themselves, others, these are STD!
An STD is; "Statements That Define", such as; 'Oh I don't do that, no I'm a this, that or the other, look at them! We comment on everything, even in Church! And that comment says more about you than them, it reveals, and this is what I felt God saying to me the other morning, it reveals' what you think of yourself in; comparison to others, how you see yourself, where you feel you are in the general order of life, the 'pecking order' if you would.
We all have STD's, now I'm not saying they're bad, we shouldn't have them, I'm drawing your attention to yours? Why? Because it will let you into how you feel about yourself, and as scripture points out, 'lean not on your own understanding' Prov 3:5. You and I are flawed people, but through the; blood, sacrifice, the Grace of God, we are; redeemed, being restored, worth more than anything, Matt 6: 25-27
Read these scripture, meditate on them, more importantly, believe these scriptures, it's you He's talking about here, talking to. Now a comment once made by a guy I used to work with, one I've always remembered, is this; "Don't believe in half truth's, you might have the wrong half!"
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Billie Holiday, the Harlem Renaissance, and the sound of new America
There are few moments more perfect than walking into a dimly lit old bar late at night and hearing a Billie Holiday song, either on the jukebox or being covered by the four-piece in the corner. "These Foolish Things" is practically custom made for sliding onto a stool and ordering an Old Fashioned as you prop your elbows up on the bar and think about lost loves and life's regrets. Her discography is not composed entirely of anthems for the lonely, but few American artists seem to have captured the melancholy of 2am quite like the woman who would become known as Lady Day. And for much of her career, her unique voice could be heard in one of the many clubs that used to line Manhattan's 52nd Street, a stretch of the city that became known as Swing Street.
Confirmed details about Holiday's early life are scant. She was born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia and raised in Baltimore, but her father left his family and her mother worked such long hours that Holiday was usually left in the care of her mother's half-sister, Eva Miller, who herself worked so much that she in turn left young Holiday in the care of her own mother-in-law. Records from this era are sketchy, and Holiday's own autobiography is vague and riddled with inconsistencies (it was, in fact, written by a man named William Dufty, and when questioned about some seeming errors in it, Holiday once famously shrugged and replied "I ain't never read that book.")
She was in and out of a reform school called House of the Good Shepherd, first when she was caught skipping school and a second time after a neighbor attempted to rape her and the police needed to keep her somewhere with more protection than her frequently empty home. She worked as an errand girl in a brothel, and it was there that she first heard the music of Louis Armstrong, the artist she credits as having the most profound influence on her eventual drive to become a performer. In 1929, Holiday followed her mother to Harlem, where both of them found work in a brothel. Holiday was thirteen at the time. When the house was raided by police, she found herself imprisoned in the workhouse on Blackwell's Island, later renamed Roosevelt Island.
When she was released in October of 1929, she decided she had had enough of being Eleanora Fagan. She sought work as a singer, taking the stage name Billie from her favorite actress, Billie Dove, and the last name Holiday from musician Clarence Holiday, the most likely candidate for being her father. She teamed up with neighbor and aspiring saxophonist Kenneth Hollan and began knocking on club doors. It didn't take long for club owners and talent managers to realize there was something special about this tragic young kid. She soon had a new home, on Swing Street — 133rd Street between Seventh Avenue and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.
Everything I Have Is Yours
By the time Holiday and Hollan were looking for work as musicians, the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing and Swing Street was its artistic heart. An event as momentous as the Renaissance doesn't have a specific start date — such cultural shifts grow organically, and sometimes it's only in hindsight that we can see a Movement — but if forced to chose, many people cite 1917, the year in which a white playwright named Ridgely Torrence cast black actors in a series of performances that allowed them to actually be actors — no minstrelry, no blackface. In 1919, poet Claude McKay wrote the angrily political "If We Must Die," a piece that served as a sort of clarion call to black Americans to stand up and defy the racism and subjugation that had been their lot in American life for so long.
In the final days of the 1910s, Harlem experienced a cultural, artistic, and intellectual awakening — all set to the sound of a new piano music called the Harlem Stride style. As jazz became more acceptable — it had previously been regarded as something a bit low class and "Southern," not really the stuff for more sophisticated urbanites — clubs began to open to showcase the new sound. With the onset of Prohibition, many of the Harlem jazz clubs — Tillie's Chicken Shack, Pod's and Jerry's, the Rhythm Club, the famous LGBT friendly Harry Hansberry's Clam House — became some of New York's most famous speakeasies.
White patrons, fancying themselves adventurous, even began making the trip up to Harlem to see this once in a lifetime community of musicians that included, people like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and a guy named Buck Clayton, who eventually moved to Shanghai, where he partnered with a Chinese musician named Li Jinhui, resulting in the birth of "Shanghai Jazz," an incredible melding of traditional Chinese music with modern American jazz, condemned by the government as pornographic (they branded it "yellow music") and embraced by the masses to such a degree that, despite the hand-wringing on the part of moral watchdogs, it became the sound of Chinese pop music during the 1930s and 1940s.
Back in Harlem, the influx of white patrons was good and bad. Good because it exposed whites to black culture — not just the music, but also to the social and political defiance that was growing. Good because it resulted in integrated streets. Bad because those streets sometimes integrated at the expense of black locals. Bad because some of the clubs, including Harlem's famous Cotton Club, opened specifically to showcase black talent for white-only audiences.
It was in this dynamic and tumultuous atmosphere that Holiday found herself performing. Her reputation grew quickly, and in 1933 producer John Hammond heard her sing for the first time. Later that same year, he arranged for her first recording, backed by Benny Goodman and resulting in her first hit, "Riffin' the Scotch." Hammond — and most of America — had never heard anyone sing like Holiday. Her voice is still today instantly recognizable. There's something about it, something to do with smoke and shadow and sex; something that seems melancholy even when the words and melody are happy; something a little slurred, a little muddled, the exact voice you need late at night.
Hammond paired her with an increasingly impressive array of musicians and bandleaders both black and white, including Teddy Wilson, Artie Shaw, and Count Basie, who was at the time famously in a musical duel with Chick Webb, whose lead vocalist was Ella Fitzgerald. Holiday's working relationship with Basie and his band was tense. They claimed she was temperamental, unprofessional, and difficult. She claimed they were cheap, and that they demanded of her artistic changes that undermined the very reason so many people were coming to see her. In the end, the differences were irreconcilable, and Billie left the band.
By the end of the 1930s, Swing Street was gone. The Depression, the end of Prohibition, the rise of organized crime, and the brutal suppression of demonstrations that became the Harlem Riot of 1935 kept patrons away. By then, though, Billie Holiday was a star, and Hammond booked her at a new place downtown, in New York's Bohemian Greenwich Village neighborhood, called Café Society.
Strange Fruit
There was a night in 1939, at Greenwich Village's Café Society — the first nightclub in Manhattan to become racially integrated — that Billie was scheduled to perform. The club was started in 1938 by a New Jersey shoe salesman named Barney Josephson, and from the get-go he intended it as a thumb to the nose of high-falutin' society. The very name was chosen as a joke, a satirical reference to writer and socialite Clare Boothe Luce's praise of sophisticated "café society." Josephson referred to his club as "the wrong place for the Right people" — the word "Right" being specifically capitalized as a reference to the conservatives he thought throttled American culture.
Popular nightclubs had a long history of booking black talent but only allowing white clientele. Josephson's club was integrated though, welcoming black as well as white patrons and treating both equally. The list of performers who worked the stage at Café Society is staggering. Among the club's star performers was Billie Holiday, who took the stage that night in 1939 and slinked through an otherwise usual set. Until she got to the last song, one she'd not performed before. Audience members were thrown for a loop. All wait service stopped. All the lights but one were shut off, a spotlight on Billie's face, her eyes closed. In that silent darkness, Lady Day launched into the song, "Strange Fruit."
The song was written as a poem by a teacher named Abel Meeropol, who was moved to pen it after seeing a photo taken by Lawrence Beitler in 1930 of the lynching of two black men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. Originally published in a teaching trade journal, Meeropol searched unsuccessfully for a partner who could set the poem to music. Eventually, he did it himself, performing "Strange Fruit" with vocalist Laura Duncan. Someone at Café Society, either Josephson himself or show director Robert Gordon, heard it and convinced Holiday to perform it at the club. It is a chilling song, subverting the classic image of trees laden with fruit with the lynching of blacks. Although Holiday was initially nervous about reprisals for such a famous singer performing such a powerful and controversial song, it was so well received that it became a regular part of her shows at Café Society. When it came to recording it, however, producers were wary. After Columbia, the label to which Holiday was signed, refused to let her record the song, she turned to her producer John Hammond, who also balked. In the end, Holiday took the song to Milt Gabler's avant-garde Commodore label, where she was finally able to record "Strange Fruit."
Café Society continued challenging the establishment, breaking down barriers, and fostering incredible musical talent until the club came under intense, sustained harassment from the House Un-American Activities Committee (the Congressional mob charged with ferreting out Communist threats, usually at the expense of any sense of free speech or Constitutional rights). After Barney Josephson's brother Leon was called to testify before the committee and refused, a propaganda campaign was waged against Café Society by an all too compliant press. Customers shied away, and in 1947 Josephson had no alternative but to close it down.
I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
When social upheaval and the end of Prohibition conspired to shutter many of the famous nightclubs on 133rd Street, jazz proved it could adapt and survive. It found a new home in the cafés and nightclubs of Greenwich Village, and it found a new Swing Street on 52nd between Fifth Avenue and Seventh Avenue. New clubs like 3 Deuces, The Onyx, and Club Carousel kept the Harlem musical Renaissance alive, even if it wasn't in Harlem anymore (the biggest club in Harlem at that time was Minton's, popular because the owner was more than happy to indulge musicians with free food and drink), and the pioneers of the 1920s slowly turned the new stages over to the next generation of jazz legends: Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk. The big band sound gave way to bebop. But Lady day remained. In 1939, a young Italian-American crooner named Frank Sinatra — born the same year as Holiday — saw her perform at the Uptown House. He was entranced (and maybe a bit smitten). "Standing under a spotlight in a 52nd Street jazz spot, I was dazzled by her soft, breathtaking beauty."
Sinatra undoubtedly learned lessons from Holiday, things like how to use emotion and how to turn a song into a story. He also became something of an activist, fighting against segregation in nightclubs. Frank's own home away from home, Jilly's Saloon, opened on 52nd Street in the waning days of its time as Swing Street. Sinatra later said of Billie Holiday, "Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular music in the last 20 years. With a few exceptions, every major pop singer in the United States during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius." Throughout the 1940s, her popularity continued to rise. Her best known and biggest hits, songs like "God Bless the Child" and "Lover Man," were from this era. It seemed there was really no stopping her. And then in 1947, it all started to fall apart.
Though often known of by the people with whom she worked, Holiday's addiction to heroin became public knowledge when she was arrested in 1947 for possession of narcotics. Many who owed their success to her abandoned Billie in droves. When her own lawyer no-showed the trial, Billie plead guilty. She was sent to Alderson Federal Prison Camp, better known as Camp Cupcake and much later the temporary residence of Martha Stewart. She was released less than a year later and, despite having no new album released in a few years, performed to a sold out house at Carnegie Hall. A similarly successful show on Broadway in 1948 seemed to signal that despite addiction and legal setbacks, Lady Day was still a force to be reckoned with.
But in 1949, she was arrested again on possession charges, this time in San Francisco. Although she recorded another of her most famous songs, "Crazy He Calls Me," in the wake of this second arrest, her popularity was taking a hit and she began to disappear from American radio. A crippling blow was delivered when New York City used her drug arrests as justification for revoking her Cabaret Card. Implemented in 1940, the New York City Cabaret Card system required artists to be licensed to perform in any establishment that served alcohol. The requirement was finally repealed in 1967, thanks largely to Frank Sinatra's threat to never perform in New York again. Still today, although the Card was abolished, New York City has a bewildering number of antiquated cabaret laws on the books. But for Holiday at the time, that meant she was effectively banned from just about everywhere in New York that would have otherwise booked her– though she was in good company; Charlie Parker, Chet Baker,Thelonious Monk, and Lenny Bruce all had their cards revoked over the years. Loss of the card forced Billie into smaller and smaller venues, with less and less pay, most of which went to heroin.
Even as the drugs took their toll on her health and her talent, she soldiered on. Her voice was shot critics said, but in the 1950s she toured Europe and began recording for the legendary Verve label — records that proved audiences still wanted her music and that reports of the demise of her voice were exaggerated. In 1956, in support of the release of her (suspect) autobiography, she recorded Lady Sings the Blues, the title that would become synonymous with Billie Holiday. She returned triumphantly to Carnegie Hall that same year. In 1957 she married a guy named Louis McKay, a Mob goon who, liked most of the men Billie ended up with throughout her life, beat her. But he also committed to getting her off heroin, even if it was not for the most altruistic of reasons (he lived better when she was performing, and he planned to franchise her name, opening a chain of Billie Holiday recording studios). By then though, it was just too late. She toured Europe again in 1959 and recorded an album for MGM. It was released posthumously.
As Time Goes By
Sitting in a small Greenwich Village cocktail bar called Orient Express, listening to a playlist compiled by the bartender, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Bennett from the Schwarzenegger film Commando (but with a tweed waistcoat instead of a chainmail one). It's a mix of Billie Holiday and Tom Waits, and the drink of the evening is called the Mata Hari — bourbon, mezcal, lemon juice, and agave, topped with ginger beer. There's only a couple of other people in the bar at this hour, and at these times one can drift into the realm of quiet contemplation as one stares at the drink in one's hands. Dwelling on Billie Holiday's death in 1959 seems ghoulish, and it seems unfair. We all of us meet the reaper sooner or later, and whatever brought us into his company is ultimately inconsequential when measured against what we did with the life we were granted.
If there's any testament to Billie Holiday I could deliver myself, it would be there, sitting in a bar late one night not so very far from where Café Society once stood at 1 Sheridan Square. Swing Street is gone, both 133rd and 52nd. The Cotton Club, 3 Deuces, Onyx, all gone. Minton's remains, reopened recently though not with any legal connection to the original (though they do their best — and their best is pretty good — to honor the spirit of the original, with live jazz and good food). Most of the Greenwich Village clubs that inherited the jazz scene are gone as well. Where Café Society once stood, the first club in New York (one of the first in the whole country), there is now a park, the Sheridan Square Viewing Garden. No plaque commemorates Café Society, though a block away another historic joint, the Stonewall Inn, just got their official designation as a landmark.
Yet despite all the changes, despite the trends that have come and gone, despite the fact that as is its fashion New York City has torn down and rebuilt itself half a dozen times since she first set foot on a Swing Street stage, Billie's voice remains. It transcends race and era. I've heard her songs performed by a regal, aging dame in a Harlem cocktail bar and a twenty-year-old in a rough dive in the mountains along the North Carolina-Tennessee border. You don't want to wish misfortune and woe on anyone, but when tragedy forges a talent like Billie Holiday, you can tell yourself at least part of it was worth it. Like Sinatra said, she's one of the most distinctive and important artists modern American music ever produced. "It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me," he said. Nothing can tarnish that. Over fifty years later, you can still bow your head at the bar, feel the chills as you let Billie's voice wash over you, and take one last drink before you bid adieu to the bartender and head out into the night.
This article was originally written in for Alcohol Professor and has been reprinted here with permission.


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Dear CAM International prayer partners,
Here are the prayer items for Newslink, 19 July 2016.
Lloyd Rowlands had an excellent time at Kipushya last week, although only 2 full days. He travelled with Brenton Brown, whose grandparents, Jim & Mary Mullan, had worked at Kipushya 1926-34. They met with Church leaders and had a terrific service with 2,000+ gathered under the palm and mango trees. Thank God for this opportunity for Lloyd. Pray that messages shared will bring lasting encouragement to the folk there. This weekend Lloyd & Sandy will be at Bethel Church, with a seminar on Saturday for leaders from about 8 local churches. Pray for God's anointing on all that takes place.
Dave Garrard had a busy time at Kinshasa last week, with Bible-teaching meetings every day, attended by people from different Pentecostal churches. He preached on Sunday and saw a big response. He made some important contacts and saw networking opportunities for CAM. He also visited the Bible Society re the new Kiluba Bibles and sorted out about the ISTELU College diplomas. Thank God for this fruitful time. Pray for a good outworking from the contacts made. Pray for Dave's journey back, leaving Lubumbashi Weds afternoon, arriving in Manchester early Thurs morning.
Media news: Carol and Ginny (see below) received 2 encouraging testimonies from Congo, relating to the 'Victory in Jesus' broadcasts on TV/Radio. (1) A lady praised God that her drunkard husband had accepted Jesus. (2) A couple on the point of divorce were touched by the message and have been reconciled. Praise God for His powerful Word that is transforming people's lives. Pray that this media work may continue to be a blessing.
Gordon McKillop sent some points for praise from Nyangombe: another very good harvest (47 tractor loads of maize - 188 tons! - hauled to the families' drying racks behind their houses); 15 new calves born and many more to come; roof repairs completed on the main Bible School building; fast progress with multiple building projects. Praise God for this success!
Prayer requests: for the local people's maize fields to be protected from bush fires; for the young men in Bible School now to understand who Jesus really is (the focus); for safety for workers on high buildings and roofs. Sybil McKillop is returning to Scotland for an annual eye check, flying from Lusaka next Tues. Gordon will drive her on Mon to Solwezi for the flight to Lusaka. Pray for safe travel and a good trip for Sybil, who will also be seeing her family in UK.
Brian & Val Rutten and their son-in-law and daughter, Jeremy & Teresa Feller, are our Canadian missionary partners in Ethiopia, based in Addis Ababa. Pray for them to have wisdom and inspiration as they supervise the church-planting work.
Wanderley & Rosaria da Silva, along with other foreigners in Mozambique, have been advised by the Portuguese Consulate to avoid travelling outside the cities. Pray for peace and security in the country, also for neighbouring Zimbabwe, with unrest and protests across the land. Pray for Wanderley as he supervises the work on the Vocational Centre.
Carol Seymour and Ginny Perkins have one week left in UK before leaving for Congo on Weds 27 July. Pray for all their final visits, last-minute jobs and packing.
Thank you for praying. Your prayers are greatly appreciated by all our CAM personnel.
Compiled by Lyn Ramsey. The next Newslink will be sent on Tuesday 26 July.
Dear CAM International prayer partners,
Here are the prayer items for Newslink, 12 July 2016.
Lloyd Rowlands had a good seminar at 'The Light' church in Lubumbashi last week, finishing on Sunday. He spoke on the Holy Spirit. Pray that his teaching will remain with the people and be a blessing. Today (Tues), Lloyd has the opportunity to fly to Kipushya with a group of American pastors, returning Friday. Pray for a great visit, an encouragement for the people there, who often feel 'cut off'. Pray for Lloyd's voice to hold – he has a sore throat. Pray for Sandy Rowlands, 'holding the fort' again this week, as Dave Garrard is also away.
Dave Garrard has had a busy week teaching on 'Romans' at ISTELU Bible College, Lubumbashi. Thank God for another course covered. Pray for the students to apply what they have learnt. Dave wanted to go with Lloyd to Kipushya, but felt he should fulfil an invitation to Kinshasa, the capital. He has weekday teaching and weekend meetings there; also needs to sort out College diplomas and enquire at the Bible Society re the new Kiluba Bibles held up there. He flies to Kinshasa today, returns Monday. Pray for success for Dave in everything.
Fatal accident update. 3 weeks ago we mentioned Marcel and his family in Lubumbashi, whose house was destroyed by a mines lorry and a grandchild killed. Latest news is that two grandchildren are still in hospital. Nothing has been done yet to help the family with housing, so they are using a tarpaulin at present. Pray for healing and for provision for this needy family.
Lighthouse School. Praise God, the foundations for the two new IT rooms (a Centenary project) are now complete.
Gordon & Sybil McKillop report that the Nyangombe Youth Camp was really good, with requests to stay longer and for there to be more frequent camps! Pray for all the young folk who attended to stay focused on what they learnt and for their changed lives to be a testimony. Pray for a Bible School for Young Preachers, in progress now. Practical work: At the Lunga Children's Home (down in forest near Nyangombe) they managed to raise a solar water pump tower 12 metres high on Saturday, and water is now flowing from the borehole. Thank God for safety during a very tough challenge. Master builder Colin Breeze is helping at Nyangombe for a month. Buildings are being erected on five different sites. Pray for all the work to go well.
Thank God that CAM is able to support 65 Ethiopian church planters on a regular basis. Pray for more individuals and churches to help the Mission shoulder this burden.
Wanderley & Rosaria da Silva report that the plastering of the Vocational Training Centre (a Centenary project) is now finished inside and out. Pray for good progress with the next stage – a covered central area, doors, windows and toilets.
Carol Seymour and Ginny Perkins had a good time catching up with Nick & Kym Delport and then David and Stephen Womersley last weekend. The meeting at Tydd Gote last Weds went well. Thank God for these blessings. Pray for a meeting at Wickford tomorrow when they will both speak. Pray for Carol and Ginny's last two weeks in UK, as they start to think of their return to Congo on 27 July. Pray that they will get everything necessary done in time.
Thank you for praying. Your prayers are greatly appreciated by all our CAM personnel.
Compiled by Lyn Ramsey. The next Newslink will be sent on Tuesday 19 July.
Dear CAM International prayer partners,
Here are the prayer items for Newslink, 5 July 2016.
Lloyd Rowlands is doing a teaching seminar at 'La Lumiere' (Light) church, in the Golf suburb of Lubumbashi, on three afternoons this week - today, Wed and Fri. He will preach there on Sunday. Pray for God's anointing and blessings on these meetings. Other seminars are being arranged for later this month and for August. Thank God for these opportunities for Lloyd. Pray for all the arrangements.
Sandy Rowlands is 'steaming ahead' with her devotionals for the Lighthouse School. Praise God, she did more work than expected last week. Pray for a good conclusion to this project.
Dave Garrard was teaching at Kolwezi all last week, at a branch Bible College of ISTELU in Lubumbashi. He taught morning and evening courses. Thank God for a fruitful time. Dave was blessed to stay with an ex-Kamina 2 student, now an ardent church planter. Praise God for the good fellowship they enjoyed. Pray for Dave teaching on 'Romans' at ISTELU all this week.
Pastor Mwambay had a favourable time in Kinshasa, seeking official recognition for the Lighthouse School. Some further documentation is required. Pray for this to be completed soon. Mwambay is due back in Lubumbashi on Weds. Pray for this faithful servant of God.
Gordon & Sybil McKillop are 'flat out' with a Youth Camp at Nyangombe that runs from 6am till 10pm. Praise God, the young people are being blessed. Pray for them and for the McKillops and other workers to have the strength needed for the final stages of this Camp. Another Bible School is scheduled to start just two days after the Camp finishes. Pray for all the preparations for this.
One of the plaintiffs of the Nyangombe ownership case that was thrown out of the Kitwe High Court has taken the same case to Lusaka High Court. Pray for all this libel to fail.
Thank God for the 65 church planters CAM supports in Ethiopia on a monthly basis. Pray for the 600 or so of these evangelists in total who work in the country.
Wanderley & Rosaria da Silva are holding a class for 20 young children, aged 4-6, three times a week. It is a challenge as most of them don't understand Portuguese. Pray for this work and for the da Silvas to find a way to communicate well.
A special prayer request this week is for albinos, who are said by witchdoctors to have magical powers, leading to their murder for body parts. This started in the north of Mozambique, but has now been taking place in Chimoio. Pray for God's protection of these people and for them to experience God's love.
Carol Seymour and Ginny Perkins spoke at a church in Taverham (Norfolk) last Sunday and shared in the church picnic afterwards. They've been seeing Ginny's parents and Carol has started some dental treatment. They will meet Nick & Kym Delport on Friday and David and Stephen Womersley on Sunday. Pray for an evening meeting at Tydd Gote church tomorrow.
Praise God, Carol's aunt is now in a care home in Wickford and the family happy.
Thank you for praying. Your prayers are greatly appreciated by all our CAM personnel.
Compiled by Lyn Ramsey. The next Newslink will be sent on Tuesday 12 July.
Dear CAM International prayer partners,
Here are the prayer items for Newslink, 28 June 2016.
Lloyd Rowlands and Dave Garrard were at Kamina for a week, until last Thursday. They had some good meetings with church leaders and were invited, with these leaders, to meals at the Governor's and Vice-Governor's residences. (The Vice-Governor attends a Pentecostal church in Kamina.) They also visited Kamina 2, where they used to work. Thank God for this fruitful time. Dave travelled by local bus (4 hours) from Lubumbashi to Kolwezi last Sunday. Pray for him teaching full-time all this week at the Bible College linked to ISTELU College in Lubumbashi. He will return by bus to Lubumbashi on Sunday, ready for a week of teaching at ISTELU. Pray for God's blessing.
Sandy Rowlands thanks folk for their prayers. She has completed 35 of her planned 40 devotionals for the Lighthouse School. Praise God! Pray for her final work on these.
Pastor Mwambay is in Kinshasa, completing the paperwork for the Lighthouse School to be officially recognised (so teachers get paid by the government). Pray for success with this.
Gordon & Sybil McKillop are gearing up for the annual Youth Camp at Nyangombe starting on Thursday. 120 or more are expected to come over the long holiday weekend. Pray for all the preparations, for the teachers and for the young people who attend, that God will overrule and bless everyone involved. A pastor came to Nyangombe last year and his sister was prayed for – she was depressed after 14 years of marriage but no child. Yesterday she gave birth to twins and spoke to Sybil on the phone, expressing her thanks to God. Praise God for this wonderful answer to prayer! May it encourage our faith, too.
Praise God for the TV studio that has been equipped in Addis Ababa, thanks to CAM's Centenary Fund. Pray that the teaching programmes being broadcast may have a wide and powerful influence.
Wanderley & Rosaria da Silva are holding a class for 20 young children, aged 4-6, three times a week. They are teaching them reading, writing and Bible stories. Most of these children have never even held a pencil. Pray for these very young lives to be blessed. Pray for the work on the Vocational Centre to go on well; keep praying for peace and security in the country.
Carol Seymour and Ginny Perkins have enjoyed their stay in Tipperary, Ireland. On Sunday, they shared at a local church about their work. Next Sunday they will be at Taverham in Norfolk. Pray for a time of blessing there. Carol would appreciate prayer for an aunt who is in hospital and needs to go into a nursing home. Pray for all the arrangements to go smoothly.
Thank you for praying. Your prayers are greatly appreciated by all our CAM personnel.
Compiled by Lyn Ramsey. The next Newslink will be sent on Tuesday 5 July.
Dear CAM International prayer partners,
Here are the prayer items for Newslink, 21 June 2016.
News of fatal accident. Marcel, on steering committee of Lighthouse Project in Lubumbashi, had a large copper-mines lorry crash right into his house, with 13 people inside. His oldest grandchild was killed immediately, the child's friend had to have both hands amputated, and 10 are in hospital with bad injuries. Marcel himself is in hospital with very high blood pressure. Please pray for the family at this time of shock and grief, that they will know God's comfort.
Lloyd Rowlands and Dave Garrard have been at Kamina since last Wednesday. Friday to Sunday were three full days of meetings celebrating 100 years of the Pentecostal Church group. Thank God that they were able to participate in this. Tomorrow evening Dave will preach in the church at Kamina 2 (where both Dave and Lloyd worked in the past.) Pray that they will be a great encouragement to the folk they meet there. Pray for their flight back to Lubumbashi on Thursday 23rd. Dave then has some sessions to teach at the Korean University before he goes to Kolwezi on Sunday 26th for a week of teaching at the branch Bible School of ISTELU there. Pray for Dave to know God's strength with this demanding programme.
Sandy Rowlands reports that all is going well at the Living Waters Centre in Lubumbashi. She is preparing for Lloyd and Dave's return on Thursday, also Monga Ngoy is arriving around the same time with a young Belgian couple – 'so it will be overflowing'! Pray for them all. Sandy requests prayer for their two boys in Australia – Gareth starting his university exams on Thursday and Michael completing his army training. Pray for God's blessing on them both.
Gordon & Sybil McKillop report that the two-week Bible School finishing this week has been excellent. Praise God for all that has been taught. Pray for those attending to return to their churches with fresh zeal and commitment. A small group of students spoke for some hours with a backslider and God's Word convinced him of his need. Praise God for his restoration. Pray for visiting Bible teachers to have wisdom and to build on what has already been taught.
Praise God for witchdoctors renouncing their demonic practices, burning all their charms and following Christ in Ethiopia. Pray for many more to turn from their witchcraft.
Wanderley & Rosaria da Silva report that work is now going ahead again on the Vocational Centre in Chimoio: plastering the walls and installing electricity in the classrooms. Praise God. Pray for good progress with this Centenary project. Pray for the weekly discipleship meetings for children and women. Today is the birthday of the da Silvas' elder daughter, Thaisa. Pray for her and also for her sister Dayene.
Saturday 25 June is Mozambique's Independence Day. Pray for a peaceful celebration and for agreement between the two main political parties.
Carol Seymour and Ginny Perkins left London (Stansted) early today to fly to Ireland, where they will be staying with a friend for a week in Tipperary. Pray for them to have a refreshing break there and to be a blessing to all those they meet.
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So I'm going to Kelowna this Thursday.
My boss paid for flights and handled our overnight accommodations, and it's happening.
We all just decided that we needed to get a better sense of the city and maybe view a couple different houses, see the schools, and just get a better feel of the different neighbourhoods etc before we move further with this. Although at this point it's pretty much green lights all around.
Like guys. I'm moving to Kelowna. For real. Soon. By this time next year I'll most likely be in a custom-built home. That I've designed from scratch. Every tap and door handle. Each tile and window will have been chosen by me. For me.
And I don't know how I feel. My boss finally let himself get excited today when we finally made the decision that this was happening. That it was going to work for everyone and be a good move, the right move all around. You could totally tell he was happy, well my coworker, J, too for that matter. But A verbalized it a few times, point-blank saying, I'm getting excited now. And it's not that I'm not excited. It's just that I don't normally show it. I legitimately have googled, on more than one occasion, and read multiple studies on the traits of psychopaths, just to make sure I'm not one, just because of how emotionless I am sometimes. Don't worry. I'm not a psychopath… I'm pretty sure 🙂 But I definitely wasn't as excited about the move as either one of them.
Do I want to move? Yes.
Would I be okay to stay? Yes.
Am I happy about moving? Yes.
Is it stressing me out? Yes.
Do I think it would be good to move? Yes.
Do I think it would be easier to stay? Yes.
Soooo, you can see my newest issue.
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Posted on: 10.8.2017 at 10:06 p.m.
UPDATE – Sunday, 10:15 p.m.
A Whiteville man was shot twice in the back Sunday around 8 p.m., according to a city spokesman.
Thurman Jones was transported to Columbus Regional by private vehicle, Fire Marshall Hal Lowder said. He was listed in stable condition.
Police were on the scene of the shooting through much of the evening. Jones was shot at 104 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Lowder said.
"This is an active, fluid investigation," Lowder said.
Police do not know if the shooting is related to two murders that occurred within a week last month, or if the latest violence is related to a series of shootings in the city over the summer.
BREAKING: Sunday, 9:50 p.m.
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I am interested in starting or helping with a task force project so that we can get laws changed in Virginia. You may have seen my story on the news. I was the one kicked out of Big Woody's at Chesapeake because I was breastfeeding. I emailed my story to you all and look forward to hearing from you!
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A nice piece on the sinking of the Lusitania as we commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I….
With the start of the First World War, many were expecting a titanic clash of the German and British navies, the race between the two for sea supremacy being one of the myriad of factors that the war had begun over in the first place. The commencement of hostilities had led to widespread fears that […]
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Filed under: Marines, WWI | Tags: 2nd Infantry Division, 4th Marine Brigade, 6th Marines, Alan Axelrod, Ancestry.com, Belleau Wood, Bunker Hill, Chapultepec, Craig Hamilton, Lexington, Louise Corbin, Lundy's Lane, Robert Asprey, Thomas Holcomb, Valley Forge
100 years ago, Thaddeus Stephenson Allen answered his country's call and enlisted in the Marine Corps. T.S. Allen soaked up history as a young man, reading
stories of Lexington and Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Lundy's Lane, Chapultepec. These seemed to me like those stories which begin, "There were giants in those days." Still, they gave a heroic background in my mind for the closer events of the Civil War, and the brief but glorious episodes of the War with Spain, in reading of which I was first introduced to the Marines.
The internet is an amazing thing. I was reading Alan Axelrod's "Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps" and he quoted, but did not identify one of the Marines in MAJ Thomas Holcomb's 6th Marines. Checking the end notes, I found that it was from "Echoes from Over There" (Edited by Craig Hamilton and Louise Corbin), as quoted in Robert Asprey's "At Belleau Wood". Fortunately, "Echoes from Over There" is available online, so I was able to not only to find the original quote, but the full, first-hand story of Marine Private T.S. Allen. Not only that, but with a quick visit to Ancestry-dot-com, I was able to find out considerably more details about his family. (Sadly, once I get on that site, it's a time-sink for me and I emerge hours later knowing many things, most of which are of no relevance to what I was looking for originally!)
He writes vividly of his first experience in combat, drawing on his knowledge of history. He wrote this while still hospitalized due to being gassed in Belleau Wood and one can easily see how he'd eventually end up in the newspaper business…
"Here they come!" a shrill boyish voice piped up.
"Hold your fire!" the injunction ran from officer to officer and man to man.
The German barrage lifted; the French guns almost ceased firing. The men about me were cursing and swearing in that choice collection of profanity that belongs to the Marines. It took me back swiftly, on the wings of memory, to a lonely walk in the woods I had taken, as a boy, when I had whistled to keep up my courage.
The German troops were clear of the woods. On they came with closed ranks in four lines. One looked at them with almost a friendly interest. No particular hate or fear. And yet there was a queer sensation along the spine, and the scalp seemed to itch from the tug of the hair at the roots. The fingers bit into the rifle.
"Hold your fire!"
As the command rang on my ears with a sharpness that enforced obedience, I seemed to be standing on Bunker Hill and hear the command: "Wait till you see the whites of their eyes!"
I think I know how those old Yanks felt that day, as the enemy drew nearer and nearer.
The next I recall is firing. Firing. Firing. My fingers were tearing greedily at more ammunition, then the instinct of the hunter restrained me. I began to fire slower, looking for my mark, making sure of a hit. The Huns now appeared to me almost on top of us and then, all of a sudden, there was nothing more to aim at. A few scattered groups with hands held up, racing for our lines and shouting "Kamerad! Kamerad!"
The Marines weren't the only ones there, as Army units were on both sides of them, but this fight really does deserve credit for "The Birth of the Modern U.S. Marine Corps". It remains legendary in the Corps and I hope to be able to some more research to learn the stories of these Marines and share them with you. If my cards fall right, I'll be in Belleau Wood next year, walking the ground. After all, that's the only way to understand it.
Filed under: Books, Conferences, WWI, WWII | Tags: Battle of the Somme, Bob Scales, Bud Cole, China, David Silbey, George Patton, Jeff Gibbs, John Lillard, Kelly Morningstar, Kevin Hymel, Malta, Margaret Stoltz, Military Classics Seminar, Military History Legion, Pecan Pie, University Club, Wargaming, William Philpott
The next Military Classics Seminar (18 April 2017) will feature a review of William Philpott's Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century, by David Silbey, Professor and Associate Director at Cornell University in Washington. You have 8 days to read it!
If you've not attended the seminars before, you're truly missing out. Each month (minus some summer months and December), either a member or a guest speaker provides and oral review of a military classic or a recent book of note. Discussions both precede and follow the commentary by the speaker. There's dinner and a bar, so no one goes hungry or thirsty. The opportunity to discuss military history and rub elbows with a variety of historians is worth considerably more than the nominal $35 cost for the dinner. It's held at the Fort Myer Officer's Club and we gather at 5:30pm, with dinner served at 6:30pm and the talk starting around 7:30pm. The dinners are always good, but this month is special, as the dessert is pecan pie!
Contact Co-Secretary Eric Joyce via email: militaryclassics -at- gmail.com to make your reservation.
I also wanted to pass along the upcoming speakers and events at the University Club's Military History Legion. I've not yet attended, but will likely circle July 11th, since Kevin Hymel doesn't talk enough about Patton for me to have my fill….
Dinner is afterward, but there is an $18.00 open bar – Wine, beer, soft drinks and complimentary popcorn to hold you over during the talk.
All events are at the University Club: 1135 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, Phone: 202 862-8800. You may also join us for dinner with the speaker afterward. Non-members may use credit cards or cash for dinner. Business attire (no jeans). Valet parking available: $12 for 2 hrs, $17 for 2+ hrs; some metered parking nearby but may run until 10 pm!
Questions? Contact Margaret Stoltz: mstoltz -at- universityclubdc.com. or Jeff Gibbs: tigrejj -at- aol.com
May 16, 2017 (Tues) – "China's Quest for Great Power" by CAPT. Bud Cole USN (ret) will explain China's naval expansion, and its linkage to the pursuit of secure energy sources and Chinese foreign policy, both globally and in an Asian context; in a presentation that we hope will be in time to anticipate pending developments in the South China Sea.
June 8, 2017 (Thurs) – "Playing War: Wargaming WW II in the Pacific" by John Lillard, will discuss the history and nature of wargaming and how the wargames conducted by the Naval War College allowed the US Navy to foresee the course of the battle for the Pacific during WW II.
June 20, 2017 (Tues) – "Scales on War: The Future of America's Military at Risk" by MGen. Bob Scales USA(r), who will illustrate how, through the experience of recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, our adaptive enemies learned how to defeat American technology, and why a resurgence of neglected Army and Marine small units is now required.
July 11, 2017 (Tues) – "Patton's Way: A Radical Theory of War" by Kelly Morningstar, who will describe Gen. George Patton's radical doctrine of war, developed over decades, that contradicted official Army doctrine but led to brilliant successes such as his breakout from the Normandy pocket that shattered German resistance and liberated Paris.
August 24, 2017 (Thurs) – "The Great Siege – Malta 1565" by Jeff Gibbs, about one of the most celebrated but now neglected events of the period: the dramatic, desperate siege of Malta, where the Knights and the Maltese people heroically crushed the myth of Turkish invincibility.
Filed under: Films, Navy, WWI, WWII | Tags: Alvin York, Carlisle, Doug Mastriano, Pearl Harbor, US Army Heritage and Education Center
February shapes up to be an interesting month for those interested in WWII history.
The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) continues the Strategic Art Film Program with a viewing, dinner and discussion of the award-winning film, Tora! Tora! Tora!, depicting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 6:00pm, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
The evening will feature U.S. Army War College Professor Al Lord as film moderator. He will review the film while guests enjoy a Japanese themed dinner with a complimentary glass of sake. In addition, the event will feature local Pacific theater militaria collections, as well as miniature and model displays highlighting Japanese WWII aircraft. Finally, guests will also have the opportunity to participate in assembling paper models of the famed Japanese Zero fighter plane, which gained its notoriety because of its widespread use during World War II.
Those who wish to participate in the dinner must purchase tickets from Carlisle Barracks MWR and can do so by calling 717-245-3099 or 717-245-4329. Preferred seating is provided for dinner guests, but those who do not wish to purchase dinner are welcome to enjoy the movie for free. Parking is also free, and the USAHEC facility is handicapped accessible. For more information about this and all other events, please visit the website: www.USAHEC.org or call: 717-245-3972.
I was up in Carlisle for the showing of Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper, which included a revealing talk by Doug Mastriano, whose work Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne places York's action very specifically, down to having dug up the actual shell casings from the fight (no other action in that area during the war). The dinner was very good, though since the main course arrived while the light were out, I was guessing what I was eating. The staff there is very helpful with the reservation process, as I'd already experienced with the library staff. We drove up for the night and stayed at the nearby Marriott Residence Inn.
Filed under: Books, Marines, WWI | Tags: Barbara Tuchan, Belleau Wood, Clifton Cates, Edwin Simmons, Joseph Alexander, Max Hastings, Peter Owen, Rheims, Thomas Holcomb
In preparation for Tuesday night's Military Classics Seminar Series, which covers both Max Hastings' Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War and Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series, I got a little derailed by a recommendation from the Marines I usually sit with and read a book by two former MCSS members, BG Edwin H. Simmons and COL Joseph H. Alexander, Through the Wheat: The U.S. Marines in World War I. Colonel Alexander passed away in late September and would be a familiar face to just about anyone who has seen History Channel shows on the Marines.
At the September meeting, I won a great book in the monthly raffle, Peter Owen's To the Limit of Endurance: A Battalion of Marines in the Great War. That got down to the nitty gritty of movements of companies and small groups of men in the attacks from Belleau Wood to the end of the war. I didn't have any perspective in between that and Tuchman's grand overview, so I eagerly snatched up the Kindle edition of "Through the Wheat".
To slip into an aside, I really have found two compelling reasons for e-books. Now, I love real, live books. There's nothing like reading and turning pages, smelling the book, having the tactile sensations of the book, and getting the author to sign your book. You don't get those with an electronic book, but you do get two other things: portability and maps.
While "Through the Wheat" is no massive volume, it's really nice to always have it with me. I have a tablet and phone, so I've always got a copy of whatever Kindle books I've read with me. So, I could be carrying 6 or 7 books on WWI, or a few dozen on Marines, and quickly cross-reference or simply read while walking to lunch or sitting down somewhere for a drink. I was reading both this one and Hastings (though I have not finished Hastings yet). As a book-addict, I could sneak 5 minutes of reading in at obscure moments. I didn't even need to plan it.
As I've noted before, the greatest leap involved in having a book on a tablet is that you can just load Google maps or some other application and pull up the location being covered in the book. That is, if the book doesn't have maps, you suddenly do. While you may not have a thematic map, with unit symbols and direction of movement drawn on it ("Through the Wheat" has some beautiful maps, by the way), you have two other abilities beyond just being able to get any map — zooming and terrain. Sometimes, it's hard to place the action in relation to known landmarks or in context to the rest of the campaign. The zoom really allows you to do that. Looking at the terrain in Google Earth or even just contour lines and satellite imagery gives you a perspective far closer to actually walking the ground than anything else.
To return to the subject, "Through the Wheat" is a well-written book with extensive research behind it and a great ability to keep the story and the people flowing. One of the great problems in writing military history, especially in a unit study in which there are so many casualties, is to keep the story flowing, rather than jumping from place to place and from personal story through unit perspectives to some kind of overview. Alexander and Simmons were masters of the art, learned over decades, and had a mastery of the material. So, the movements of the various battalions in the Marine Brigade and of the officers transferring between those units (and occasionally both out-and-back-into them), I didn't feel a sense of confusion and wonder who was who or how the Brigade suddenly ended up on the other side of Rheims. Of course, another aspect of this is deciding which interesting stories would detract from that by being too singular or too detailed for a study of the entire Brigade.
Getting one's mind around the Marine experience in World War I is not easy, but I think "Through the Wheat" offers a great introduction to it. It deals with the entire range of issues, from the rapid expansion of the Corps, through training, the political maneuverings to get the Marines into the fight (both with the Army and the French) as well as the insights into each of the 5 battles the Brigade fought during the war.
I fully expect to walk the ground in Belleau Wood in 2015, with my trusty tablet in hand, reviewing Cates' commentary on the assault through the wheatfield. If I'm lucky, I'll have found Peter Owen's friend and guide, Alain Romelot, and won't be as lost as one would expect.
Filed under: Conferences, Marines, Navy, Officers, Veterans, WWI, WWII | Tags: Arthur M. Eckstein, Barbara Tuchman, Charles Neimeyer, Counterinsurgency, David Ucko, David Ulbrich, David W. Hogan Jr., Edward N. Luttwak, Eliot Cohen, Gian Gentile, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Luigi Albertini, Mark Mandeles, Max Hastings, Richard Kohn, Rick Atkinson, Roman Empire, Steven L. Rearden, Thomas Holcomb, Thomas Parker, Tom Julian, Tracy Barrett Kittredge, Walter S. Poole
Last Tuesday, I attended a seminar session that's part of the Military Classics Seminar series. The MCS is now in it's 57th year and, shockingly, this is the first I've heard of it. They meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from September to June at the Fort Myer Officer's Club for a dinner, a speech about a book (or a pair of books) and discussion. For my first meeting, the topic was David Ulbrich's book, Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936–1943, published by the Naval Institute Press, and the speaker was Dr Charles Neimeyer of the Marine Corps University.
It was a fantastic event. The group contains many retired military officers and historians – so, exactly the people who are interested in what I and the readers of this blog are interested in. They are quite friendly to first timers, so don't hesitate to attend. They do have a website, but the skinny is, send an email about a week in advance to Eric Joyce at this e-mail address firstname.lastname@example.com and bring your $35 when you arrive on the second floor for cocktails at 5:30pm, dinner, the book talk and discussion. Expect to finish around 9:00pm and bring a few dollars for the open bar and a few for the book raffle (I won a book on Holcomb's battalion, 2/6, in WWI).
I've been looking for a group of like-minded individuals interested in the broad expanse of military history for quite some time. So, I've found a home!
This year's schedule:
October 21, 2014
Gian Gentile, Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency. New York: The New Press, 2011.
Speaker: David Ucko, Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University
November 18, 2014
Dual selection: Max Hastings, Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War. New York: Knopf, 2013; and Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August (1962).
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Parker, George Washington University
January 20, 2015
Steven L. Rearden, Council of War: A History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1942–1991. Washington, D.C.: Joint History Office, 2012.
Speaker: Walter S. Poole, OSD Historical Office
February 17, 2015
Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945, vol. 3 of The Liberation Trilogy. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
Speaker: David W. Hogan, Jr., US Army Center of Military History
March 17, 2015
Richard Kohn, Eagle and Sword: The Beginnings of the Military Establishment in America (1975) (Free Press, paper, 1985). [reviewed 1980]
Speaker: Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, The Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
April 21, 2015
Edward N. Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. [reviewed 1978]
Speaker: Arthur M. Eckstein, Professor of History and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, College Park
May 19, 2015
Luigi Albertini, The Origins of the War of 1914. London; New York, Oxford University Press, 1952-57.
Speaker: Tom Julian, Independent Historian
June 16, 2015
Tracy Barrett Kittredge, Naval Lessons of the Great War. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1921.
Speaker: Mark Mandeles, President, The J. de Bloch Group
Filed under: WWI | Tags: Henry Lincoln Johnson, Medal of Honor
As I noted last May, Henry Lincoln Johnson was eventually awarded the DSC, posthumously, for his actions in WWI. Now, the Secretary of Defense has recommended that Johnson be awarded the Medal of Honor.


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I can't drink it with you now, but we will drink it together in my Father's house.
Get Clarification of the meanings behind the Seder meal and what Easter is truly all about.
- The Passover
- Orthodox Jews and their beliefs.
- Messianic Jews and their beliefs.
- Moses and the plagues.
- Blood on the door.
- The feast of unleavened bread.
- The Passover Seder meal.
- – Sam eats the horseradish!


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I actually got the SIM from a friend who brought it back to Malaysia a few weeks back before I departed to the UK. You know, you can actually activate the SIM with a foreign credit card, just use your home country credit card and use your UK's address as billing address to pay for it.
Well, PAYG sim in the UK is all free, unlike back in Malaysia, you have to pay for one. You only have to pay to buy credit, or Goody bag for Giffgaff. What I like about Giffgaff is just one thing, cheap monthly, only £12/month, you get unlimited data, 250 minutes of free call to UK number, 250 free texts. One more thing, Giffgaff to Giffgaff calling is free.
Calling back to Malaysia is only £0.03/minutes, which is reasonably cheap. Check more about the international rate here. One sad thing for me is there's no 4G LTE on Giffgaff network. Giffgaff is actually running on O2 network, it's not a telco on its own, and there's no customer support, all their support is supported by other Giffgaff user on the Internet.
There's other alternative like Lebara, Lyca, EE, 3, T-Mobile and more, but still I find Giffgaff is the cheapest for unlimited data. Some friend complained about the network being slow, or not stable, so far I've experienced downtime once for about few hours, luckily Giffgaff admitted that mistake and credited an extra £3 into my account. Great. Good luck to you, future and current international student in UK like me. Cheers.


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First up, congratulations to Liza Jane, who is the winner of March's free vintage shift dress patterns! Liza Jane has a very inspiring blog that I have followed for about a year - I especially enjoy her posts on printing fabric and love her bright and inspiring colour combinations. Liza Jane, I know this is a 'slightly busy' time for you but I will be contacting you for your details tonight and will quite understand if there is a delay in replying!
For April, the giveaway will run slightly differently. All the patterns below are up for grabs on a first come first served basis. If you want a pattern or even two, leave a comment with your blog or email details so that I can contact you for your address. I will then send them out immediately to the first claimant. All patterns are complete in factory folds with instructions, multi-size UK sizes as stated, although I am happy to ship anywhere in the world. My hope is to maybe kick start someone's spring/summer sewing!
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^ Sizes 8 - 18
^ Sizes 10 - 22
^ Sizes 10 - 22 - UPDATE - DISPATCHED
^ Sizes 8 - 16 - UPDATE - DISPATCHED
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Apologies for somewhat grainy quality of photos. They were taken on my iPad past my bedtime (I wish I was being ironic there but I really appreciate my sleep right now!) and I am afraid the images reflect that! However, hopefully they should be sufficient to show the general style lines. Any patterns unclaimed by 6pm on Tuesday 30th April 2013 will be donated or sold.
I hope you are enjoying your spring/autumn sewing. Although living here in England I should be sewing for spring, it's still feeling very wintery and I am having trouble envisaging a time when I will need anything less than four layers (on top!) to step outside. I had a busy March both at home and with work, but I have squeezed in some sewing. I will post my latest soon. In the meantime I hope all celebrating or not have had a happy and peaceful Easter.
Happy sewing, 'til next time!


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Joab causes the king to cease his mourning, 1-8. The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back, 9, 10. David sends to the priests to incite the men of Judah, 11-17. Shimei is pardoned, 18-23; Mephibosheth excused, 24-31; Barzillai is dismissed and Chimham his son taken into the king's family, 32-40. The Israelites expostulate with Judah for bringing home the king without them, 41-43.
1 And it was told to Joab, "Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom." 2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard it said that day how the king was grieved for his son. 3 And the people withdrew by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle. 4 But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, "O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!" 5 And Joab came into the house to the king and said, "You have shamed this day the faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, the lives of your sons and of your daughters, the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines, 6 In that you love your enemies and hate your friends. For you have declared this day that you regard neither princes nor servants. For this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived and all of us had died this day then it would have pleased you. 7 Now therefore, arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you shall not go forth, no one will tarry with you this night. And that will be worse to you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now."
8 Then the king rose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, "Behold, the king sits in the gate." And all the people came before the king, for Israel had fled each to his tent. 9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king saved us from the hand of our enemies and he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land for Absalom. 10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore, why do you not speak a word of bringing the king back?"
11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, 'Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, seeing the speech of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house? 12 You are my brothers, you are my bones and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?' 13 And you say to Amasa, 'Are you not of my bone and of my flesh? May God do so to me and more also, if you are not captain of the host before me continually in place of Joab.'" 14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man, so that they sent this word to the king, "Return—you and all your servants." 15 So the king returned and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the king to conduct the king over the Jordan.
16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjaminite, who was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David. 17 And there were one thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, and they went over the Jordan before the king. 18 And a ferry-boat went to carry over the king's household and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he came over the Jordan, 19 And said to the king, "Do not let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart. 20 For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king." 21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, "Shall Shimei not be put to death for this because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?" 22 And David said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries to me? Shall any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?" 23 Therefore, the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die." And the king swore to him.
24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes from the day the king departed until the day he came back in peace. 25 And it came to pass, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?" 26 And he answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said, 'I will saddle myself a donkey so that I may ride on it and go to the king,' because your servant is lame. 27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes. 28 For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king, yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore do I have yet to cry anymore to the king?" 29 And the king said to him, "Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, 'You and Ziba divide the land.'" 30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all because my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house."
31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and went over the Jordan with the king to conduct him over the Jordan. 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old, and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. 33 And the king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me and I will feed you with me in Jerusalem." 34 And Barzillai said to the king, "How long do I have to live that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35 I am this day eighty years old. And can I discern between good and evil? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear anymore the voice of singing-men and singing-women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king? 36 Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. And why should the king recompense me with such a reward? 37 Let your servant, I pray you, return again so that I may die in my own city and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king and do to him what seems good to you." 38 And the king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which seems good to you. And whatever you shall require of me, that I will do for you." 39 And all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had come over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own place.
40 Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. And all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel. 41 And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to him, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and have brought the king, his household, and all David's men with him over the Jordan?" 42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry for this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's cost? Or has he given us any gift?" 43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than you. Why then did you despise us so that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.